An early morning crash in Union, Lawrence Ohio, resulted in injuries for a 52 year old man of Chesapeake, Ohio, on February 10, 2014 at approximately 6:30 am. Police reports are that the man, Ronald K. Moore, was driving a 2013 GMC C25 pickup, along with a 2013 Chevy compact car, east on County Route 32. He was stopped at a stop sign at State Route 7, when the 23 year old driver of the Chevy allegedly failed to maintain an assured clear distance and struck the pickup in the rear. The injured man was treated at the scene and the younger man charged. Rayburn’s towed the Chevy.

Rear end crashes in 2011 were 22,056 that resulted in injuries. Union, Lawrence, Ohio, whose population in 2012 was 9,002, suffered 90 injury crashes, which resulted in 132 injuries. Accidents that were caused by snow on the road and resulted in injuries were 3,326 in Ohio, in 2012. In the category of probable causes of crashes by contributing circumstances, there were 18,889 injury crashes that were caused because of drivers who failed to keep an assured clear distance ahead/ACDA. Stop signs were a contributing factor in 7,331 injury crashes in Ohio in 2010.

If you’ve been injured in a Rome, Union or Windsor, Ohio, area accident, please call the Lawrence County, Ohio, car accident attorneys at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243.